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Would you sell out for $1M
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| Lucius User Info... | This thread was inspired by the Diss a Nickle Back thread. Would you play what you preceive as sell out music for a heafty sized amount of money? I would do it in a heart beat. Sure you wanna pay me to play guitar. It wouldn't even be a question for me. How about YOU? Cheers Lucius - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:47am | ||
| kyle User Info... | i consider selling out as when you compromise your ideals for monetary gains, when you do something you would not otherwise do simply because it is lucrative. with that said, i dont think i would consider selling out, but then again, everyone has a different idea of what selling out is. and so my not selling out, might be someone elses selling out. - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 1:11pm | ||
| Nik Olaz User Info... | Maybe. Depending on what type of music it was. If it was a genre I could give two shits less about, sure. - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 1:38pm | ||
| Jesse The Malcontent User Info... | "i consider selling out as when you compromise your ideals for monetary gains" That about sums it up for any artist, musical or otherwise. I don't think people that make the music they want to make and earn a good amount of money deserve to be penalized for it or called sellouts. Quite the opposite - I think people that create what they want on their own terms deserve more, not less. Unfortunatly it seems to go the other way around. - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 1:50pm | ||
| Dr.DoomXXX User Info... | Make it 2mill and we'll talk. - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 2:02pm | ||
| Mr. Hell User Info... | $1,000,000? Yes. I will play whatever pablum that is required. Of course, I'll still be doing the music I enjoy as well. And it won't be for the rest of my life. Let's say a year or less. - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 3:49pm | ||
| The Box Drone User Info... | I currently work in an office doing data management, and I'm getting a hell of alot less than $1M Making music for even the shittiest band on the planet would be preferable to doing any ass-licking 9-5 job, or even most sweet 'normal' jobs. The only case in which I would not 'sell out' is if said band had a strong message that I was morally opposed to (like a racist band or something). And with a million dollars you could afford some damn sweet gear, and nothing could stop you from making killer tracks on the side. - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 4:06pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | It depends on if you know how to market your band so that you make a lot of money. - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 4:29pm | ||
| Trican User Info... | i've already sold out have you not heard my band - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 5:43pm | ||
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| K.C. User Info... | It's not even a question, most of us would do it because we are raised to believe having such a large amount of money would equal happiness. Of course it doesn't, and you can blow a million bucks almost as quickly as you could blow a thousand. And then the ideological "keep playing the music you love" or "go back to it" would become overshadowed by a chance to make another million. You sellout. (he says to no one in particular) Everyone compromises their ideals for monetary gains. It's called your job. We should all look towards those rare few folk and punk personalities who have managed to keep playing good music and never compromised. Pete Seeger is one, I think maybe the Dead Kennedy's? Not too sure, but I know they're out there. Real happiness is playing music with your buds, not giving a shit about money and rocking everyone's minds out at your shows. Oh and getting laid afterward by some stranger. Yes, happiness. I'll let you know when it happens to me. -k. - Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:08pm | ||
| J. Rab User Info... | .....I'll bet it would longer to spend 100,000,000 than it would to spend 1000. Whaddya thinka THAT? - Mon, 21 Nov 2005 6:06pm | ||
| Mr. Hell User Info... | It's also nice to not go into debt from making the music you like to play. I think using the masses of sheep to finance what you really want to do is a romantic idea that most musicians would LOVE to be able to live out. It'd take me a lot longer to spend a million than a thousand. Mind you, I'd probably do something boring with a million bucks. Something like make more money off it. - Mon, 21 Nov 2005 6:30pm | ||
| Grain Fed User Info... | I'd play drums for Hillary Duff for for years (250 g a year) without thinking twice about it. I also think that I'd be broke and out on the curb for breach of contract after about 6-8 months cause I'd have to be pretty messed up to listen to that shit every night - Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:31am | ||
| jackass User Info... | ah, you wouldn't have to listen...you could just turn the click track way up in your headphones. haha I'm so clever - Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:55pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | Fuck all of the elitist purists, gimme a fucking million dollars right now and 2 smokes 'cause you're so fucking stupid. - Wed, 23 Nov 2005 5:23pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | (taping on Ross's shoulder) SMOKES, SMOKES!!! - Wed, 23 Nov 2005 5:45pm | ||
| 420 User Info... | YES!!!! - Wed, 23 Nov 2005 9:37pm | ||
| Deitrosity User Info... | i wont write the shit! but ya, i would actually one million dollars, you'd have too sell alot of shit to alot of shitdrones for that kinda coin....Hmmm? I quit! What do you mean I can't? You own me? Too late! awe shit guess I'll opt for a heroin suicide.(too bad I don't see that happening too knkle back or whatever their called) - Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:41pm | ||
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